There’s a tiny little feature called Show in Collection that Adobe added to the contextual menu that appears when you right-click a photo just about anywhere in Lightroom. It allows you to see what collections that photo has been added to and it allows you… Read More »Lightroom’s Show in Collection
There’s a handy feature in the Filmstrip that gives you access to a wide range of info about your photos no matter where you are in Lightroom. First you need to enable Show Image Info Tooltips in the Filmstrip. Just right-click (Ctrl-click) a photo in… Read More »Lightroom’s Image Info Tooltips
I want to pass along a tip on how to sample a color from the original photo when applying a split tone affect to a photo that has been converted to grayscale in Lightroom. First, go to View > Before and After to choose a… Read More »Lightroom Split Toning Tip
Here’s a simple tip that may just keep you from pulling out your hair when trying to export from Lightroom 2.+ and stack the copy back with the source photo.
Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your photos are going in and then out of Lightroom,… Read More »Tutorial: Understanding the Lightroom Export Process
Here’s one of those little things that seems to be tripping up a number of Lightroom 1 users who have upgraded to Lightroom 2. In Lightroom 1, you can expand the Keywording panel and start typing a keyword into the big keyword tag field.… Read More »Keyword Auto-Complete in Lightroom 2
There is a small and little used command in Lightroom’s Folders panel that can make your life simpler in the long run.
There are some significant bug fixes in this update. Most notably: * A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments. * Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a… Read More »Adobe has released the final versions of Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3.
Red eye, the result of the light from the flash reflecting off the back of the retina, is not a phenomenon that is new to digital photography. It most commonly occurs when using a camera with a pop-up flash directly over the lens. While it… Read More »Tutorial: Correcting Red Eye
I was very excited to find I had gotten my first review for Lightroom 2 for Dummies on Amazon, and I was even more excited to find it was so positive! 🙂 Don’t just take my word for it though … you can read the… Read More »‘Best “Dummies” Book Yet’